@judepickledplum.bsky.social
Tea drinking fool, storyteller, humanist, voluptuary. Easily distracted by cats and reverb. Quiet voice, loud hands. Likes writers, books and awful puns.
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialCasting has begun for a remake of The Shining.
@deborahzafer.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialVery excited to see @saloneurope.bsky.social friends @miriamo77.bsky.social @evoripclaw.bsky.social & @terryholland.bsky.social 🥳 reading
I hope others will join us 15th at Queens Larder
@deborahzafer.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialLondon friends, join me at this next week?
@insurgentpress.bsky.social launching an anthology of writing by @saloneurope.bsky.social writers.
Will be fun and friendly and unpredictable.
@stillsquirrel.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialHigh as the sleepwalking girl to have a story in one of my all-time favourite lit mags! Thank you for having me @hexliterary.bsky.social ❤️🍄
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialPart of me thinks they say these things just to exhaust us.
@trashcatlit.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialToday's spotlight from our prose poetry issue is from @justinkarcher.bsky.social 🦝
We loved the wonderful lines in this one, the tension and pace, and the exploration of addiction and that final, soothing image.
Read and listen here:
trashcatlit.com/the-serenity...
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialMy first crush was called Matthew. He had black hair and freckles and the bluest eyes. I lived at number 5 and he lived at number 20, until people made false reports to the council about his dad (single parent, traveller, in the late 70s), and they were forced out. I was 5 and devastated.
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialIt is weird. It talks about creating 'an amiable environment for travellers'...to me that is dealing with someone comfortable, not someone with swollen legs and sore feet. Sure, encourage staff to alternate between sitting and standing for their health, but give them the choice.
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialGo back two more generations and you'll find a Jew who fled the pogroms in Odessa and an Irish migrant. Does that make a difference? And what is she proposing the endgame is for all the not-quite-British-enough?
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialI had one Italian grandparent, I never met him, his son (my Dad) never met him. Does his existence somehow make me less British? (Does the fact I suspect he was a blackshirt, based on the fact that he was a POW who wasn't allowed to stay after WW2 change her view?)
@trashcatlit.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialWe're also thrilled to announce our Best Microfictions noms 🦝
Many teeny tales to choose from, congrats to these five writers of smol 💜
George Lang
@angelajoynes.bsky.social
@jessebinger.bsky.social
Emma Phillips @words-outwest.bsky.social
Ian Johnson @youcanandyouwill.bsky.social
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@madeleinewrite.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialCheck out my little werewolf tale here! Always a pleasure to be part of @trashcatlit.bsky.social 💜
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialI'm so sorry, Bronwen.
@whimsyfiction.bsky.socialReposted by @judepickledplum.bsky.socialWhimsy October is here, and this month your whim follows you! The theme for our spookier shade of whimsy is… Wholesome Horror. Writers have 7 days to piece together a 300-word tale of whimsy based on one of our five whims and the unique object in their inbox. Now it’s time to run from your whim!
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialThere is a thrill about live music - it doesn't even have to be "good", that AI cannot replicate - because it is a connection between the performer and the audience, one feeding off the other.
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@judepickledplum.bsky.socialYes - that opens up a lot of different ways sex can be bad.
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialYou should run a workshop, then with your poems and the workshop results, you'd have a Vagina Monologues-style theatre experience. Maybe called it We Choose The Bear - or you can borrow my future Novella In Flash title, The Joy of Ex.
@judepickledplum.bsky.socialI've written a couple of flash containing elements about exes (one very much showing me not handling things well, by leaping out of bed and offering tea to someone after first time sex, to avoid saying out loud "oh that is what bad sex is"). A novella in flash has been mooted - The Joy of Ex
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